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Countach! This is the product tie-in I’ve been waiting for! If you’ve been holding out on picking up the next best thing from Sharper Image, you might just hold out a little longer. The world’s largest manufacturer of massaging chairs, Bodyfriend, is bringing a Lamborghini-inspired chair to the market. Below is…

We have all seen the original Fast and Furious movie. When watching the Race Wars scene there was only a few seconds to convey the atmosphere of the location, but it left a lasting impact. We saw the party, community, racing, and most importantly the cars. This past weekend I…

XP1K4 may be the 4th in the series, but it’s outstanding. I watched it three times before typing this up. Its that good. Normally I grow tired of these types of videos. They get repetitive. All I really want to see is an amazing driver do some cool stuff. Zp1K4…

You might have noticed that Build Race Party has been offline for a bit. We got hit with a bunch of malware that really wasn’t that big of a deal. But because we are DIY car guys, we naturally wanted to fix it ourselves. I’m a big believer in DIY.…

You read that correctly. Someone actually drove the Nurburgring on two wheels. Chinese stunt driver Han Yue set the slowest world record ever recorded at the ring. It seems pretty stupid in a lot of ways. Until you see the Mini come around the corner in two wheels. Its not right. Its…

Are you or someone you know a fan of Steve McQueen? Still needing that last-minute gift for your favorite car person for the Holidays? A group out of Switzerland, Garbo Studios, has announced a new graphic novel, Steve McQueen in Le Mans, celebrating McQueen and the cult classic movie, Le Mans.…

Every November, Bancroft, Ontario plays host to the Rally of the Tall Pines. One of the most significant events in the Canadian Rally Championship calendar. This year featured particularly rough conditions for the November 26th race. Melting snow and repeated freeze-thaw cycles turned the roads into a slushy, muddy disaster.…

I think it’s fair to say that most people understand that racing is a far more complex than just having a fast driver in a fast car. After all, racing is a team sport, and every element in the team has to work perfectly in order to stay competitive, yet…

When walking through Toronto, a person generally does not expect to see a CNG-powered, Opel Astra prototype. Yet, the car captured in these photos and videos seems to be exactly that. The CNG sticker on the rear bumper is a dead giveaway for the fuel, and the fact that it…

Clarkson, Hammond, and May started filming the studio scenes for The Grand Tour on Amazon. The show won’t air until this fall on Amazon (no date has been set yet), but we finally get to see the tent studio they’ll drag around from city to city. There was a contest on Amazon to win…

TGAC(Top Gear After Clarkson) is horrible. It has nothing to do with the hosts although the Screaming Guy does suck pretty bad. It’s more the producing and writing. I bet you could take an old script and run the Joey and Screaming Guy through it and it would be a…

I love this video! Two cars that shouldn’t be racing on snow, a Corvette C6 Z06 and a Toyota Supra, are ripping down a snow banked road somewhere in Russia. Yes Russia. But most of the awesome or really bizarre car videos are from Russia if you haven’t figured this out by…

In the hunt to confirm the Michelin Man’s, aka Bibendum’s, true identity, we have found the truth. There is not a Presta or Schrader valve to be found… only tread. Rest easy knowing this is “A Better Way Forward.”

Here you see a Presidental limo reverse drifting around Lime Rock Park. This video, released in a short clip, has fooled people into thinking it’s real with Forza 6’s realistic graphics. If it were real, this driver would have some serious skill! The most obvious tell might just be the…

The latest episode of Launch Control is up and it’s one of the better episodes. David Higgins and Craig Drew head over to Wales Rally GB to compete in the Group N class with a WRX STI featuring Colin McRae’s historic Subaru livery. Subaru Team USA’s Rally America rally car…

I don’t think I’ve seen a GT3RS on snow before! This video could be a lot better but its pretty interesting. The owner is having some financial difficulties and sold his house and some of his cars and is now living in his garage. But he won’t sell his GT3RS! And…

This VW Bug Terrorizing San Diego streets is so insane its almost hard to believe. If you’re wondering, its crazy illegal too. There is a bizarre possibility that they closed a few roads to shoot the video but if they went through all that effort and planning, why was there an…

Petrolicious recently sat down with Matt Farah to discuss his his first car, Raph’s McLaren F1, and Manual Vanquishes. Here’s the beginning of the interview. It’s good so I wanted to share it but you will need to jump over to Petrolicious to finish it. Here’s how it starts: If…

I love that Formula Teams put on fun promotional events like this. Toro Rosso put Max Verstappen into a Red Bull show car to race through a specially designed section of the legendary Streif ski course in Kitzbuhel, Austria. Of course they shot video which is below. The course was set up a…

You’ve seen the Truth in 24hr, but I’ve doubt you’ve seen this! You can thank me later because its good. Instead of following a top team like Audi, you follow a privateer competing at the highest level. The footage is amazing as you can see by the screen grabs from…

This is why you have fun with cars on closed roads or racetracks. The guy knows he made a mistake when he exited the tunnel. He knows he nearly died. But why was he flying down a road he didn’t know? Here’s what happened. “This past Sunday… This past Sunday, Jan…

We all love Clarkson era of BBC Top Gear. It’s a shame he had to move on. Some of us just wanted BBC to put the show to rest instead of butchering the legend with a recreation. Then the BBC announced that Chris Evans was taking over and people seemed excited. If you…

I want an alarm clock that sounds like a racecar. I want a race engine alarm clock. In the simplest sense, its pretty easy. Download an engine sound and program it as your alarm on your phone. But a recorded engine is never the same as hearing an engine in…

Jim Hall is a true legend of motorsport. Not only was he an amazing driver but his innovative designs laid the groundwork for the next couple of decades of race car aerodynamics. He raced in Formula One from 1960 to 1963 but he really made his mark when he started constructing his…

In case you missed it, Jalopnik launched a YouTube channel this year and made a ton of videos. Some are pretty amazing. They just put out a list of their favorites and I thought I’d share. Here’s their best of 2015 on video: My Uncle Nick and I don’t always…

Lewis Hamilton was on 60 Minutes last night and he talked about something other than winning the F1 Driver’s Championship. Lewis now makes music. This is what you do when you win too many times. Jacque Villeneuve did it. Well Those are the only two I can think of. The…

Those of you who have been reading our video game reviews may have noticed that it’s not the first time we mentioned Dirt Rally. In fact, it seems like the majority of video game content is on the topic of the latest creation by Codemasters. But that’s the thing with…

If you’re a car guy, you’ve dreamed of the ultimate garage. Someplace where you can work on and display your cars. Well what if someone made a whole bunch of these ultimate garages and put them in one ultimate garage complex? In this case, its called Iron Gate Motor Condos…

We’ve all heard of Team Oneil Rally School as a way to get started in rallying but it can be expensive for a newcomer to the sport. The California Rally Series offers and alternative way to enter rally through their one day rally school every February. Unfortunately this way of…

If you guys have some how missed Road Kill all these years, it’s time to start watching. It will be your favorite car show. I promise. This month they buy a rear engined mini truck and take it to compete in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Shoot Out.

This is a tough post as there is a ton of incredible footage from the famous Nurburgring. There are also some faster laps that either weren’t filmed or uploaded to the web. There are also some slower laps that are way more fun or crazy to watch like the last…

Chris Forsberg and Ryan Tuerck are pretty cool. Normally we see them in Formula D but now they’re drifting Nissan’s around an abandoned shopping mall to announce the Hoonigan Black Friday Sale. The spiral drift up the parking garage is right out of the Fast and Furious Tokyo movie! This…

Steve McQueen’s iconic racing suit from Le Mans just sold for $425,000! The Bonham’s auction listed the item as: A complete costume comprising a Hinchman cream-colored racing jacket two piece race suit with distinctive orange and blue stripes on down the front and Gulf, Firestone, and Chronograph Heuer patches sewn on the…

I’m surprised the car isn’t more damaged after running straight into a wall high in second gear. I feel bad for the guy but you can see it coming the moment he gets on the throttle. I also know it’s not nice to make fun of people but man he…

You have to love Chris Harris. The man can drive but he’s also gathered enough respect to request cars like a LaFerrari or McLaren P1 for a track test and comparison. He’s driven all three but never back to back. Never on the same track. Any idea which car is…

This looks like so much fun. Its an old school Mini fitted with a 160hp honda vtec deal from an Civic. The guy is a local and hustle the little mini like a madman through some of the tighter sections of the track. If you’ve ever wondered what a leightweight…

I read that Bill Caswell thinks people who take up 2 spaces are A$$hats probably because they think their cars are too nice for just one space. (Caswell: I do think that people who take up two spots are Asshats and generally self centered, entitled people. But there are exceptions, see below)…

The Team Oneil Rally School is the best rally school in North America. They not only train rally drivers but they teach winter driving courses and advanced driving techniques on loose surface. They also train security personal. Their Facebook page is a wealth of information and they regularly put out…

I just found this on Jalopnik and felt it was worth sharing. Im still not entirely sure what it is, but I know its interesting and its footage that I’ve never seen before. It also covers a pretty cool year in F1 so you get to see Lauda, Andretti, Regazzoni, Hunt,…

T​he highly anticipated third installment of RJ Anderson’s mind bending viral off­road video series has completed production and is currently in final stages of editing. In the latest of the XP1K series, The Martelli Brothers and their production team, Mad Media, created an array of massive man made obstacles spread…

The Team Oneil Rally School offers a ton of useful information on their Facebook page and it’s worth following. Their most recent post was about best practices for using pacenotes. Its pretty good so we reposted it here for future reference. One of the more difficult aspects of rallying in…

Episode 9 of Launch Control is out covering the NEFR Party, testing in NH, and Racing at Ojibwe, and GRC at Los Angeles. Ojibwe Forest Rally is the penultimate round of the 2015 Rally America championship. Subaru’s David Higgins and Craig Drew have already locked in the title, but that doesn’t…

My gut reaction is that this video is fake but its still pretty fun anyway. I don’t know the girl in the video but it looks like she drifts in her free time from the video intro. Then she disguises herself as a student driver and takes some lessons. At…

Motorbooks is turning 50 this year and is offering 50 books of your choice to one lucky winner. The contest is here on their Facebook page. It looks like you need to make a short video but 50 books is 50 books. Motorbooks was started back in 1965 when North America was…